start by generating a world with only 1 civ, so they won't have to deal with goblins sieges. then later on, after they learns crop irrigation, and how to forge iron weapons introduce them to the full game.
But one example, that i can give you right now, with today's home technology is: Automotive Replacement Parts. the little door under my stereo has broken: do i pay 35 bucks for another from a toyota parts department? Or do i model it in blender, convert to STL, and print one out for 2 bucks in materials.
If i have a bigger printer i can print corvette body panels for perhaps 20-50 in materials, sell them with a 200 dollar markup. Still probably cost less than half of what gm would charge.
serial hybrids that get an epa rating of 100mpg, for huge suvs. but if you can charge them at your home outlets the number quickly becomes meaningless.
still to be overcome: * gotta figure out a way to tax electrics fairly for the road wear that is normally covered by gas tax. * used market will need expensive fresh batteries.
I used to be strictly anti-copyright-infringement, but when I learned how these **AAs buy laws from my politicians. And then look at my relatively small disposable income (not nearly enough to buy politicians), well, that's when I started to feel maybe it's time for some civil disobedience. It's at least time to not give the **AAs any more money.
I got my mom to use linux, and she's a Grandma. I got sick of having to re-install windows so I left for linux*, then told her that I wasn't really doing windows anymore because I no longer learned anything when i fixed problems on it. So she switched, loves it, when it has issues...at least I learn something.
I think that the idea of an OS being able to be "beautiful" is sort or wonky. There is no reason such an interface couldn't run on winXP, win2k, or even somewhat in NT4, all you really need is the opengl support in the OS & drivers and you can do nifty things with alpha channel.
I'm also not convinced apple hardware is actually high quality, it's just that their os will only install on their hardware. apple is basically like a crossbreed between dell & microsoft, and this lets them charge premium prices on their run-of-the-mill hardware because their os won't install on other (less expensive, perhaps higher quality) intel hardware.
I don't think nVidia or AMD has a direct hand in the opensource drivers for their respective cards. It's my understanding that nVidia has done nothing to help and AMD has contributed information, but not elbow grease.
I think, at the moment, nVidia's (closed source) Linux driver is as solid an OpenGL implementation as you can get on Linux. But it's far from supporting other baseline linux driver features (no DRI, and no 1st party support for hybrid graphics spring to mind).
Here are two I've used before: 1) It's like monopoly, but there are hit points and you can die! 2) It's a cooperative group activity that involves creating a persona, acting. storytelling, creative problem solving, and typically some violent conflict resolution.
"...so you see your honor, we feel it is our potential customers responsibility to make sure that the site they're getting media from is one of our authorized sites. they should know the difference between a video on hulu and one on youtube, and if they don't they should be sued for it......to avoid getting sued just watch what we tell you to watch, while paying us large sums of money on a monthly basis......the only way to make sure you don't get sued is to watch only from our approved sites......that news show, with the slant we don't agree with, we can't be sure you have the right to watch it, and can't guarantee we won't sue you for watching it..."
tell them its "just like win7 but without the registry!" of course, it would only really work if it were true. it doesn't seem like ms makes technical improvements anymore - just dress it up with a newer, heavier shell.
I think the (perhaps this word is too strong) "controversy" over licensing windows is that you must agree to the license after you have a sales receipt in your hand.
IANAL, but, If I were taken to court on a EULA violation for software I legally bought (could be a tough sell to a jury that i was actually at a software licensing store - especially one with no lawyers on the premisis), but if I had to defend myself I would push the angle that I had already bought the software (evidenced by the sales receipt), and installed the software without agreeing to the EULA (through making a personal copy, which I think copyright law still allows, and modifying it to install without the EULA).
Whether this would work (in a single consumer vs. large megacorp sense) or not is a question that, perhaps someone with much more disposable income/time, will one day answer.
I had lots of fun playing 2nd edition, don't even want to think about the money I spent on it.
but when i got older and started thinking about mechanics i realized the class system was totally broken. i think 3rd brought in the kind of power-gaming min/maxing that was the natural conclusion of a class based system, what little i heard about 4th sounded like "diablo the rpg"
if the next one is class-less, i might check it out. let me clarify, classes as starting templates are great; but afterwards progression should be free-form.
Exactly! I just downloaded your post (which is copyrighted automatically in the US), in order to read it, so presumably you can file a complaint with my ISP and that'll be strike 1 against me. Hmmm, in hindsight I should have posted anonymously. Perhaps I could send the RIAA an email and then sue them for opening it. If DOWNloading copyrighted material is illegal, then the internet as a whole is illegal.
yes!!!
a while ago (in a slashdot post) someone mentioned LXDE, so i tried it, liked it, but found it unstable. then i realized i could use its lxpanel under openbox and get the best of both worlds. a stable & fast window manager, a right-click menu, and a small icon-only taskbar.
i achieved this (but prettier and just as fast) in an e17 build, but the module itask-ng isn't around anymore, and the replacement isn't good enough yet.
i used to like kde in version 3. it was ugly, but powerful. last time i tried 4 it screwed up my gnome2 menu graphics, uglified my font rendering (globally), and was slow as well. after an experience that bad; i don't think i'll give them another chance.
Slashdot Mirror
simpe platformer controls + press shift to rewind time.
start by generating a world with only 1 civ, so they won't have to deal with goblins sieges. then later on, after they learns crop irrigation, and how to forge iron weapons introduce them to the full game.
3d printed cars haven't happened yet???
http://jalopnik.com/5938012/first-3d+printed-racecar-is-real-and-real-fast
If you then add home CNC laser cutters and you have a pretty interesting, and much less expensive fabrication industry showing up.
But one example, that i can give you right now, with today's home technology is:
Automotive Replacement Parts.
the little door under my stereo has broken: do i pay 35 bucks for another from a toyota parts department? Or do i model it in blender, convert to STL, and print one out for 2 bucks in materials.
If i have a bigger printer i can print corvette body panels for perhaps 20-50 in materials, sell them with a 200 dollar markup. Still probably cost less than half of what gm would charge.
i wish i could mod this post "+1 obvious but necessary"
a few months ago on jay lenos garage they showed these things:
http://www.viamotors.com/powertrain/
serial hybrids that get an epa rating of 100mpg, for huge suvs. but if you can charge them at your home outlets the number quickly becomes meaningless.
still to be overcome:
* gotta figure out a way to tax electrics fairly for the road wear that is normally covered by gas tax.
* used market will need expensive fresh batteries.
I used to be strictly anti-copyright-infringement, but when I learned how these **AAs buy laws from my politicians. And then look at my relatively small disposable income (not nearly enough to buy politicians), well, that's when I started to feel maybe it's time for some civil disobedience. It's at least time to not give the **AAs any more money.
Free Culture
http://archive.org/details/free-culture-audiobook
Infiniminer?? You haven't heard of Dwarf Fortress??
Raising examination standards won't fix much?? I think i just figured out why they're doing this!
with all the patent litigation, slashdot should really get a rotten apple picture for these stories.
I got my mom to use linux, and she's a Grandma. I got sick of having to re-install windows so I left for linux*, then told her that I wasn't really doing windows anymore because I no longer learned anything when i fixed problems on it. So she switched, loves it, when it has issues...at least I learn something.
*not having internet explorer is a feature!
I think that the idea of an OS being able to be "beautiful" is sort or wonky. There is no reason such an interface couldn't run on winXP, win2k, or even somewhat in NT4, all you really need is the opengl support in the OS & drivers and you can do nifty things with alpha channel.
I'm also not convinced apple hardware is actually high quality, it's just that their os will only install on their hardware. apple is basically like a crossbreed between dell & microsoft, and this lets them charge premium prices on their run-of-the-mill hardware because their os won't install on other (less expensive, perhaps higher quality) intel hardware.
edit: it seems AMD does contribute code to the opensource driver. I stand corrected.
I don't think nVidia or AMD has a direct hand in the opensource drivers for their respective cards. It's my understanding that nVidia has done nothing to help and AMD has contributed information, but not elbow grease.
I think, at the moment, nVidia's (closed source) Linux driver is as solid an OpenGL implementation as you can get on Linux. But it's far from supporting other baseline linux driver features (no DRI, and no 1st party support for hybrid graphics spring to mind).
Here are two I've used before:
1) It's like monopoly, but there are hit points and you can die!
2) It's a cooperative group activity that involves creating a persona, acting. storytelling, creative problem solving, and typically some violent conflict resolution.
This!! This!! 1000 times!!
"...so you see your honor, we feel it is our potential customers responsibility to make sure that the site they're getting media from is one of our authorized sites. they should know the difference between a video on hulu and one on youtube, and if they don't they should be sued for it... ...to avoid getting sued just watch what we tell you to watch, while paying us large sums of money on a monthly basis... ...the only way to make sure you don't get sued is to watch only from our approved sites... ...that news show, with the slant we don't agree with, we can't be sure you have the right to watch it, and can't guarantee we won't sue you for watching it..."
tell them its "just like win7 but without the registry!" of course, it would only really work if it were true. it doesn't seem like ms makes technical improvements anymore - just dress it up with a newer, heavier shell.
I think the (perhaps this word is too strong) "controversy" over licensing windows is that you must agree to the license after you have a sales receipt in your hand. IANAL, but, If I were taken to court on a EULA violation for software I legally bought (could be a tough sell to a jury that i was actually at a software licensing store - especially one with no lawyers on the premisis), but if I had to defend myself I would push the angle that I had already bought the software (evidenced by the sales receipt), and installed the software without agreeing to the EULA (through making a personal copy, which I think copyright law still allows, and modifying it to install without the EULA). Whether this would work (in a single consumer vs. large megacorp sense) or not is a question that, perhaps someone with much more disposable income/time, will one day answer.
I had lots of fun playing 2nd edition, don't even want to think about the money I spent on it. but when i got older and started thinking about mechanics i realized the class system was totally broken. i think 3rd brought in the kind of power-gaming min/maxing that was the natural conclusion of a class based system, what little i heard about 4th sounded like "diablo the rpg" if the next one is class-less, i might check it out. let me clarify, classes as starting templates are great; but afterwards progression should be free-form.
Exactly! I just downloaded your post (which is copyrighted automatically in the US), in order to read it, so presumably you can file a complaint with my ISP and that'll be strike 1 against me. Hmmm, in hindsight I should have posted anonymously. Perhaps I could send the RIAA an email and then sue them for opening it. If DOWNloading copyrighted material is illegal, then the internet as a whole is illegal.
yes!!! a while ago (in a slashdot post) someone mentioned LXDE, so i tried it, liked it, but found it unstable. then i realized i could use its lxpanel under openbox and get the best of both worlds. a stable & fast window manager, a right-click menu, and a small icon-only taskbar. i achieved this (but prettier and just as fast) in an e17 build, but the module itask-ng isn't around anymore, and the replacement isn't good enough yet. i used to like kde in version 3. it was ugly, but powerful. last time i tried 4 it screwed up my gnome2 menu graphics, uglified my font rendering (globally), and was slow as well. after an experience that bad; i don't think i'll give them another chance.
then both ms and apple owe xerox quite allot of money.